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J. G. BREITENSTEIN.

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APPLICATION IILED MAY5, 1913.

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JULIUS G. IBBEITENSTEIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Application filed May 5.1913. SeriaLNq. 765,424.

class of a press in which the work is operated upon between a holdingdevice and an advanced and retracted working member;

It consists in the elements and features of construction shownanddescribed, as indicated in the claims. 1

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation with a portion of the frame broken away to disclose interiorparts. a section at the line, 22, on Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a horizontal section at the line, 3-3, on Fig. 1. Fig. 4c is a section at the line, -ii--i, on Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is. a detail section at the line, 55, on Fig. 4:. Fig. :6 is a detail section transverse to the main shaft at the same point thereon as Fig. 2, showing a modification of the cam structure for actuating the endless chain of work holders. Fig. 7 is a view of the same looking in the direction of the arrow, 7, on Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a detail plan view of a tapping device for facilitate ing the piling of disks in for delivery to the work-holders. Fig. 9 is a detail section at the line 9-9, on Fig. 1. Fig. 10 is a detail section at theline, 10--10, on Fig. 1. Fig. 11 is a detail section at the line, 11-11,, on Fig. 3.

The machine shown in the drawingsis especially designed, as to details, for presses for such purposes as it assembling button backs and making covered buttons, and some details of the structure have their entire utility consisting in their adaptation to this specific use; but the invention is intended for broader application and will be described with relation to its broader uses.

.As illustrated, the machine comprises a bed'frame, 1, in which there is mounted an endless chain, 2,composed of links, 3, each of which carries av work-holdena, which, for the specific purpose for which the machine is designed,-making buttons and assembling button backs and for many otherpurposes,--

maybe of the nature of a die, as seen in sec-p tion axial with respect to one of these parts Specification of Eetters Patent.

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in Fig. 1. This endless chain, 1, is mounted. H

on carryingsprocket. wheels, 5 and 6, whose shafts, .7 y and 8, respectively, are journaled in the frame, 1. The upper ply of the workcarrier chain travels above a rigid support,

9, upon whichthe work-holders rest in moving through this part of their endless path. Said rigid support, 9, is suspended rigidly fromithe upper plate of the frame, as seen in Fig. 2. Said upper plate has its upper surface flush with the top of the dies.

Upon the bed, 1, there is erected a standard, 10, in which there is j ournaled a continuously rotating shaft,.11, havingacam, 12, which operates upon the upper end. of the plunger, 13, for reciprocating the plunger in the standard, a spring, 142, being provided 1 between the bearings, 10, 10", and operating.

against a stop collar, 14, .to retract the plunger upward, the. cam operatlng to drive it downward. The. anti-friction roll, 14., at the upper end of the plunger, directlyre.

ceives the action and relieves the friction of the cam. Upon the lower end of the plunger below the lower bearing, 10", 1t (JflII'lGS. a

cross-head, 14, extending in the direction of the travel of the endless work-holder belt, and having at its opposite ends, re

spectively, workingmembers, 15 and 16, for cotiperating with the work-holder dies, 4-, of the'endless work-holder belt. For the specific purpose for which the machine shown in the drawings is designed, those; working members, 15 and 16, are bothin the nature of two-part dies, the particular characterof the dies in thisrespect is not essential, being varied according to the paraway from the opposed die a spring, 0,.being provided to yieldingly resist the movement of the member, b.

It will be understood that the work-holder yielding dies, 4, and the working members, 15 and 16,. must be properly registered with each other at the time of the down-thrust of the said.

working members, and for that purpose the means for actuatingthe endless work-holder to cause the working members, and 16,,

to perform their, ofiice upon the work brought into line with them by the workholder dies. For causing the step-bystep movement of the endless work-holder belt to: occur in proper time relation to the recipro'cation of the plunger, the operation of the two parts of the mechanism'is produced from the same shaft, 11. On this shaft, 11, there are mounted two cam members, 18 and 19, whichcooperate substantially as if they were one cam for actuating the pawl-andratc'het' device which .actuates the driving V v bears. The lever has another arm, 22, oifset carrying the laterally-ofiset stud-and-roll formed so that the movement of the lever which is compelledby the cam member operating against the abutment which bears shaft, 7, of the endlesswork carrier belt.

This movement is communicated from the cam members by means of a lever, 20, fulcrumed ona stud, 20 which'projects from the standard a little below and in front of the bearings ofthe shaft, l1. The lever, 20-,

has the arm, 21, projecting forward from the fulcrum, having a laterally-positioned stud-and-roll abutment, 21 in the plane of the cam member, 19, against which the roll laterally from the main trend of the .lever and atthe opposite side of the fulcrum from'the lever arm, 21, for the purpose of abutment, 22 in the plane of the cam member, 18, against which the roll bears. The two cam members, 18 and 19, are reciprocally upon it, is permitted and limited by the other cam member operating against the stud-and-roll abutment which bears upon 1t,

rand theltwo cam members are relatively formed so that in each revolution of the shaft, 11, the lever, 20, is rocked back and forth once, and is atall times held substan ,tially without play or lost motion, being restrained in one direction by one cam memhen-and in the opposite direction by the other ca'm' member. At the same side of the fulcrum of the lever at which the oil'setlever arm, 22,.stands, the said lever has a a third longer arm,'23, whose rear extremity ispivotallyconnected to a link or pitman,

2%, which extends down along the back'of the standard and through the bed frame, 1,

tea point below the level of the upper ply of the chain, 2, andis connected to the left handlend of a lever arm, 25, which extends from a collar, 26, mounted for rocking on the shaft, 7. On said shaft, immediately adjacent to said collar, there is fixedly mounted a ratchet wheel, 27, and on the lever arm, 25, there is pivoted a pawl, 28,

which'engages the teeth of the ratchet as the lever arm, 25, is, operateol'by the link, 24, to rock the collar, 26, on the shaft, 7,

1 Theamplitude 'of the cam members, 18 and 19, is sufficient to give to the pawl, 28, an angular sweep, sufficiently in excess of the now be described.

. with the Work-holder die below it.

to cause it to pickup a new tooth in each oscillation. In'order to accurately position the work-holder dies at the end of each driving stroke of the pawl, 28, as well, as for is mounted'rigidly upon the shaft 7, a scalpivoted at 31, a lever having an arm, 32,

'carryinga roll, 33, which bears. upon'the periphery of the scalloped wheel, and is adapted to fit inits scallops as they successively reach it'in the rotation ofthescalloped wheel with the shaft, 7

It will be seen that any means operating to yieldingly hold the roller, 33, against the periphery of the wheel, 29, willcause that roller to operate with atendency'to draw the.

scalloped wheel to a position at which the roller seats at the bottom of the scallop after i the crest of the scallop has been carried past the center of the wheel; and the devic'edescribed, therefore operates with a tendency to complete each step movement ofthe end less work-carrier belt to cause it toihalt with the dies properly alined with the-working members, 15 and 16. Ina sense,-howev er, the function described of this device, comprising the scalloped wheel and the roller,

I distance from tooth to tooth of the ratcl1et,')-

anotherpurpose hereinafter specified, there loped" wheel, 29, and on theframe there is i 33, is incidental, its principal or primary g5 purpose having a specific feature of'the ma chine adapted for button making. This will In the process of making buttons and but, ton-backs, certain members of the button are'deposited in the work-holder dies by the operator at the portion, A, of the path of travel of the upper ply of a belt which is exposed, as seen in Fig. 3. Upon the parts thus deposited, the working member, 15, operates when the die reaches the point of registration with that member. For completing the button a certain other element,- a disk, 39, of felt, leather or pasteboard,-

is to be deposited upon thewo-rk-holder-die before it is exposed to the action of the working member, 16. In order to avoid the necessity of having the operator insert these parts in the work-holder die after it passes the working member, 15, the'machine comprises means for depositing these parts automatically. For thisv purpose a receptacle,

30, for the disks is mounted at an elevated receptacle is loaded, to be entered in piled order in the down-spout or discharge tube, 31, in which down-spout there thus comes to be a substantially continuous pile of these disks extendingdown to its discharge end, which is inclosed by an escapement device which will shortly be described. For rocking the shaft, 34, it has a lever arm, 34, to which there is connected a link, 40, extended from the arm, 23, of the lever, 20, being connected thereto between the fulcrum and the connection of the pitman rod, 24, so that each time the lever is rocked by the cam members, 18, 19, the sweep is swungback and forth in the receptacle. A pile of disks being by this means maintained inthe discharge tube or spout, 31, the bottom disk of the pile is; lodged upon the escapement device which consists of a flat arm, 42, carried on the end of the lever arm, 32, of the short vertical rock shaft, 31, which at its lower end has the horizontal arm, 32, carrying the roll, 33, which bears, as herein-above described, against the periphery of the scalloped wheel, 29. The arm, 42, is horizontally curved in the arc of a circle about the axis of the shaft, 31, so that its path, as the lever arm, 32, swings about said shaft, conforms to its outline. The end of this flat arm, 42, has a semicircular notch, 42, conformed substantially to the inner circumference of the tube, 31;-that is to say, to the circumference of the disks which are fed down through the tube. And the thickness of said arm is substantially, or very nearly the thickness of one of the disks to be delivered. The lower end of the tube, 30, stands above the upper face of the bed, which is flush with the upper face ofthe work-holding dies, only substantially as far as the thickness of the disks, so that, while the arm, 42, can move freely between the top of the work-holder die and the lower end of the tube, the clearance is very slight. WVith the construction described, it will be seen that upon each rocking of the shaft, 31, withdrawing the flat arm, 42, from under the end of the tube, 30, one of the disks will drop out of the end into the notch, 42, upon the top of the bed at the level of the top of the work-holder die, and upon a the next swing inward of the flat arm, 42, this disk will be thrust out from under the end of the tube and carries to a position directly above the work-holder die, where it will be in the path of descent of the workingmember, 16. A stop, 45, is mounted on the bed in position to cause the disk to be gripped between it and the notched end of the arm, 42, when the disk is directly above the work-h lder-die.. The parts are constructed and the connections related so as tocause this disk-delivermg movement of the flat arm, 42, to occur during the travel of the work-holder die from the last preceding halt to the position of rest under the working member, 16, and to cause the said arm,.42, to commence to remain in position gripping the disk during the first descending movement of the workmg member, 16,-that is,until its lower end touches and grips the disk firmly.

Power is communicated to the machine bv a driving belt over a pulley, 50, which is mounted loose on the shaft, 11, and clutched thereto by means of a sliding clutch member, 51, which engages an accompanying clutch member, 50, on the hub of the wheel, 50, said clutch member, 51, being threaded for sliding on the shaft and operated for sliding into and out of clutch engagement by means of a shipping fork, 52, formed as one arm of a double bell crank lever, fulcrumed on a lug, 10, projecting from the standard, 10, the other arms, 52, 52,hav- 111g connected to their operating rods, 54, 54, which extend down to a pedal, not shown, by which the operator may move the clutch, 51, for engagement and disengagement.

It will be understood that the invention herein shown is not limited to any particular method or construction for connecting the work-holders in an endless series adapted to pass about carrying wheels and to be pro pelled in its endless path; and the word chain is employed in the specification and claims to denote such an endless flexible series, without regard to the means of flexibility.

For throwing the button out of the workholder-(lie after it has passed the last of the reciprocating working members there is pro-- vided in the die, the plunger, 70, forming the bottom of the die cavity and having a spindle stem, 71, projecting from the bot-v tom, or near side of the die, in position to encounter the driving sprocket wheel as the die forming part of the link of the chain passes onto the sprocket wheel between the sprockets. l'lneounter occurring, as can be most clearly seen in Fig. 5, from which it will be seenthat said spindle extends between the two pivots of the link on which the wm-k-holder-die is mounted to reach the bottom of the recess of the sprocket wheel between its sprockets. This encounter, it will be seen, will occur in respect to each die as the link of which it is a part, or by which it is carried, passes fully onto the sprocket wheel after having passed the last of said reciprocating working members. The button completed in the die is by this means thrust therefrom so as to be in position to fall as the chain passes down over .the outer side of the sprocket wheel.

The form oi I In Fig. 8 there is shown in detail a device which also appears in Fig. 1, for facilitating the delivery ofthe disks from the receptacle,

5. uted at intervals throughout its circumfer-v ence m position to encounter sald arm, 62,

of the bell-crank lever as the clutch member revolves, androck-the bell-crank lever to withdraw the tapper, 60, from thepipe,

20 81. A. spring, 6 L, attached to the bearing.

and to the bell-crank lever operates to retract the'tapper with a blow against the pipe, .31, when thep-ins run off'the end of the arm, 62.

f the cam members, 18, 19, necessary to cause them to give the'desired movement to the pawl lever and other parts which they actuate, is such. that the pressure of the stud-and-roll abutments on-the arms of the lever, 20', as these abutments successively pass the crests or highest points of the cams, tends to rotate the shaft and thereby tends to hasten itsjmovem'ent faster than it would be driven by the clutch; that is,

' 5' causes the driven clutch member, 51, on the hub ofthe wheel, 50, to run away from the driving clutch. member, on. the wheel, 50, and to be immediately thereafter overtakenby said driving clutch member when the oppositely sloping portion of the cams reach the stud-and-roll abutments respectively. This tends to produce a hammering of the clutch member, -malting the machine very noisy and tending also to deteriorate 5' the Working parts. To prevent this hasten ing of the shaft and consequent hammering of the clutch members, I provide a brake operating uponthe shaft to retard it against the hastening action of the abutments on the 5 cam, as described. This brake is shown in detail in Fig. 9, consisting of the brake strap, 65, which encircles the shaft immediately adjacent to its bearing in'the standard, 10, one end of the strap having a lug, 65

' ibolted to a lug, 9 ,-on the standard, and the other end being bent so as to terminate in a parallel lug, .65", ,the lugs connected to each other by a bolt, 66, bywhich the strap may be drawn to any desired degree of p tightness upon the shaft.

In Figs; 6 and 7, there is shown a modification of the cam device for operating the lever which has connections, for actuating the stepsby-step feed mechanism of the end- 5' less chain and the other devices which in the form already described derive movement from the lever,-20. In this modified form 1 the cam device comprises a single member instead ofthetwo members, ;18 and 19,0f the other form, and consists of a face cam," 80, having a face groove or channel, 81, for the stud-and-roll abutment, 82, of the arm, 83, of the lever, 84, which in this form takes the place. of the lever, 20, in the first described form, and is fulcrumed on the stud, 20 as already describedwith respect to said other form. It will be observed that the outer guard wall of the cam groove, 81,

in this form performs the function of-the cam member, 18, in theyfirst described form, and that the inner wall of said groove performs the function of the cam member, 19. The cam devices of the two forms and the respective lever arms with which they 00-. operate constitute substantial equivalents for the purpose of tlie'movements communicated, differing from each other chiefly'in respect to COIIVGIHGHCG'Of construction and ad ustment for timing the movements, and

with .the difierence in favor of the form shown in Figs. 6 and 7 ,that the pressure of the stud and-roll abutment, 82, againstthe outer wall of the'cam groove does not at any time operate so strongly to rotate the shaft as does the stud-and-roll abutment of the lever arm, 21, operating upon the cam member, 18. Even with this modified form of cam, however, Ideem'it preferable to retain the brake device shown in-Fig. 9, to prevent the driven member of the clutch from running away from the driving member as above described. 5

1. In combination with a frame, comprising a fiat table top havingin its upper sur-. face a longitudinal channel, an endlesschain of work-holders mounted for traveling. in: said channel and having their upper workreceiving ends terminating substantially flush with the upper surface of the table topand completely occupying the mouth of the channel so as to leave no access thereto from said surface of the table, and means forim- I polling the endless chain in said channel.

2. In combination witha frame, comprising a fiat table top having in its upper'surface a longitudinal channel, an endless chain of work-holders mounted for traveling in said channel having their upper ends occupying the entire. width of the channel so as to leave no access thereto below the top sur face of said work holders, and having their work-receiving mouths adapted to receive. the work. sliding on the tabletop surface to i enter said mouths.

3. In vcombination with a frame, com-. prising a flat table top having in its upper surface a longitudinal channel and endless chain of work-holders mounted for traveling, in said. channel; a Working member mounted for cooperation with said workholders at an advanced point in the travel of the chain along the channel, said workholders having their upper ends completely occupyingthechannel so as to leave no ac-. cess thereto past said upper ends and havin their work-receiving mouths positioned MN. adapted to receive the work, sliding on the table top surface to enter said mouths.

4. In combination with a frame, an endless chain of work-holders, carrying wheels for the chain; a working member and means for reciprocating it toward and from the path of the work holders; means for actuating the chain with alternating halts timed to halt the chain at the latter part of the movement of the working member toward it; a work-material conduit terminating at a distance above the level of the top of the work holders substantially equal to the thickness of said material at one sideof the path of the work holder; a sup port on the frame for lodgement of said work material substantially at the level of thetop of the work holder; an escapement device and means for reciprocating it through the space between the discharge end of the conduit and said support timed to so reciprocate it during the retraction of the working member.

5. In combination with the frame, an endless chain of work holders, a driving sprocket wheel for the same; a shaft for said wheel; pawland-ratchet mechanism actuating said wheel; a scalloped wheel on said shaft having peripheral recesses at angular intervals equal to the step movement of the sprocket wheel; a support for working material level with the top of the work holders at one side of their path of travel; a pivoted arm and means for oscillatingjit over the top of said support,: said means comprising an arm havinga roller which bears upon the periphery of the scalloped wheel, and means for yieldingly pressingit thereagainst.

6. In combination with a frame, an enclless chain ofiwork holders, and carrying.

wheels for suchichain mounted on the frame; a working member mounted forreciprocationtoward and from the path of the workholder chain; mechanism for propelling the chain with alternate steps and halts timed to halt the chain at the time of the movement of the working member toward the latter; plungers on the work holders, respectively, for ejecting the work therefrom, said plungers having stems extending through the work holders for encounter with one of the carrying wheels to. cause such carrying wheel to force up the plunger :to

steps and said cooperating parts to cause them to be.

registered with each other for their cooperation, comprising a cam device and a lever operated thereby; a rotating shaft to carry said cam device, and a friction brake operating on said shaft to restrain the movement of the shaft by pressure on the cam device of the part actuated thereby.

8. In combination with a frame, a work holding die and a reciprocating head for carrying a working member to cooperate with the die; arotating shaft and a cam thereon for actuating the reciprocating head inone direction; a spring to retract the reciprocating head, and a friction brake operatingupon the shaft to restrain the rota tion of the shaft under pressure upon the cam device caused by the spring.

9.In combination \Vltlli a frame, an end. less chain of work holders; a driving wheel for such chain; a shaft on which the driving wheel is mounted; means for rotating the shaft with step-by-step movement and rest intervals; a scalloped wheel on said shaft having alternate recesses and projections corresponding in their angular intervals with the step movement; an arm having a roller bearing upon the periphery of said wheel for engaging the recesses, and means forlpressing it thereagainst as the wheel revolves.

10; In a machine for the purpose indi cated, in combination with the workholder chain and plungers cooperating therewith, an

elevated receptacle for work pieces; a gravity conduit from said receptacle and means for positioning its lower end fixedly at one side of the path of the work holder at a distance above the level of the top thereof substantially equal to the thickness of the work pieces; a shaft whichoperates the plungers and work-holder chain; a lever fulcrumed proximate to the discharge conduit and adapted to be swung thereagainst; a spring for holding ityicldingly against the conduit, and a collar on said shaft having tappets which actuate the lever against the resistance of the spring.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st day of May, 1913.

JULIUS G. BREITENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

M. GERTRUDE Any, LUCY I. S'ronn.

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